THREE NEW SPECIES OF PANORPIDAE 
(MECOPTERA) 
By Fung Ying Cheng 
Harvard University and University of Taiwan 
The new species of Mecoptera described below have come 
to my attention during a study of Old World Panorpidae. 
Genus Panorpa 
Panorpa chiensis, n. sp. 
(PL 5, figs. 1-3; text-fig. 1,A) 
Body mostly black; vertex and rostrum uniformly shin- 
ing black; thorax black dorsally, reddish brown laterally; 
the lst-9th abdominal segments of male shining black dor- 
sally and ventrally; the hind process of the third tergite 
is short and stout, unusually broad, with more or less trunc- 
ate apex, and is in contact with the very short conical medi- 
an projection of the fourth tergite; the 6th-8th segments 
not prolonged. Fore wing: length, 17.2-19 mm.; width, 
4. 7-5. 2 mm.; membrane hyaline, markings brownish black; 
pterostigma not very prominent. Hind wing: length 15.5- 
17 mm.; width, 4.5-5. 1 mm. $ genitalia: genital bulb 
slender; coxopodites long, their inner margins bearing a 
rounded process distally and a sharp tooth-like process 
medianly; harpagones slender, the outer margin greatly 
concave near the base, inner margin with a triangular pro- 
cess and a true basal lobe, which bears a tuft of bristles; 
the apex of harpagones usually truncate; hypandrium broad 
basally; branches of hypovalvae broad distally, its distal 
outer margins fold upward to form a triangular plate on 
the edge, the apex folded upward to form a rounded distal 
end, which reaches to the base of the harpagones; para- 
meres simple, each consisting of a simple stalk, which 
broadens distally with a somewhat twisted apical portion, 
its distal inner margin usually bearing a row of short barbs ; 
preepiproct narrow towards apex, with very small U-shaped 
distal incision ; aedeagus with prominent finger-like ventral 
processes, apical processes finger-shaped, lateral processes 
very short, sharp tooth-like, extended upward. 
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